| Description | 155, 157 and 159 Wrenthorpe Road (Demolished), Stanley cum Wrenthorpe (SE 31452 22558).
WYAAS archives holds a set of medium format contact prints and a plan of a row of cottages and sheds/workshops in the position of SE 31452 22558. The photographs are attributed the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council and the photographs to Colum Giles (WYAS), both are dated 1983.
The given location 155, 157 and 159 Wrenthorpe Road is no longer developed, but mid 19th century mapping depicts a building foot print with the same plan in this vicinity forming part of the Wrenthorpe village core (OS 6' 1st edition. c.1850. Sheet 233).
The plans depict a long row of around five buildings which bends to the east in a 45 degree angle. The building at the angle is the second building from the north. The buildings according to the provided plans and photographic images, from north to south, appear as follows:
(i) Single storey shed possibly of two bays with two wide street front openings.
(ii) Single cell structure with street facing window. Possibly entered by a flight of stairs from the building to the immediate south forming a single storey extension.
(iii) Single cell structure with internal central chimney stack and three internal staircases, one being quarter turn. Probably a two storey vernacular cottage.
(iv) Single cell structure with internal central chimney stack and a single internal flight of stairs. A tall stone built two storey house.
(v) Single storey shop, the internal arrangement are not shown on plan.
All windows, where depicted, are single light. The row, apart from the shop is built of stone with greatly varying rooflines. The cottage has gable coping stones. The chimney stack is shared. The images also depict a detached barn with wide entrance and loft entrance to the north east of the complex.
The dating is unclear. The row is present in 1850. At least one building in the group may have a pre 18th century date. The vernacular cottage (iii) is possibly the earliest. Internal photographs, the location not being entirely clear, depict a king post truss, overlapping purlins, a queen post truss with diagonal posts all of rough scantling and an empty mortise socket suggesting timber reuse. These possibly belong to the cottage or the barn (the barn appear to be built of factory made brick however). The tall house, where it joins the cottage, demonstrates a break in the masonry, suggesting a later development with masonry repairs to the upper floors. The shop and end sheds, with reference to their end positions, were probably added last. |